Surprising no one, it turns out that the next-generation iPhone will put an even bigger performance gap between itself and the rest of the industry, as TSMC begins mass production of powerful 7-nanometer A12 chips for use in Apple’s next-generation iPhones.

Smaller is better

TSMC announced volume production of 7-nanometer chips in April 2018 but did not say who it was producing these processors for. Bloomberg claims those chips are Apple’s.

Why does this matter?

It’s like this — a nanometer is one billionth of a meter. In chip design, it represents the distance between the transistors that comprise the processor.

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